Ironing-board



{No Model.)

G. E. PALMER.

IRONING BOARD.

Patented Mar. 1, 1887.-

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. PALMER, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

lRONlNG-BOA RD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,748, dated March 1, 1887.

Application filed May 20, 1886. Serial No. 202,709. (N o modelJ To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. PALMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of ironing-boards and the supporting-frame thereof, and particularly to so construct the apparatus as to adapt it to the uses of a step-ladder.

The invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and adaptation of the parts of the device to the ends sought, as here inafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the invention, and Fig. 2 a View, of the same, in perspective as a stepladder.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresp ending parts.

Near what may be considered the lower end of the board A, and to the under side thereof, is attached a cleat, c, nearly as long as the width of the board. To each end of the cleat is pivoted by means of screws one of a pair of These are made nearly or quite as long as the board, are stayed by suitable rungs, and, for the sake of greater strength and stability, are preferably flared at the bottom, as shown. Upon the middle rung of this pair of legs is 'pivoted another pair, 0, one end of which corresponds nearly with the width of the longer pair, and the other end converges and joins, as represented. The ob- .ject of this is to give the greatest degree of stiffness to the legs and the broadest floorbearing with the least material. These legs are similarly stayed by rungs. As willbe eviby means of which any desired adjustment in the height of the board may be made. A cleat, a, serves/to prevent the warping of the upper end of the board and as a stop for the legs 0 at the point of extreme depression. A cord, (1, connects the stop I) with the legs C, for a purpose hereinafter explained.

To the upper rung of the legs B is pivoted a board, 6. When it is desired to use the apparatus as a step-ladder, the legs are set in the position shown in Fig. 2, and this board is turned down on the longest rung of the legs 0, when a hole, 6, in its under side engages with a pin or screw in the rung and locks the parts together. The lower parts of the device are spread apart, as shown, the distance be ing limited by the length of the cord d, and thus forms a convenient step-ladder, the successive rungs affording suitable steps, and the board 6 a final landing. When-not thus in use, the board 0 is folded back between the legs, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, and fastened by a suitable button, 0.

The result of this construction and arrange ment is a strong, convenient, and easily-adjustable ironing-board, which is at the same time adapted to serve as a step-ladder.

Having thus briefly described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the ironing-board A, legs B, having the step-board e, provided with the holei, and pivoted to the upper rung of the legs 13, the legs G, pivoted to the middle rung of said legs 13, with a pin on the longer rung engaging with the hole in the step-board, and the cord 01, connecting said legs 0 with the board A, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth. I

I11 testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEO. E. PALMER.

\Vitnesses:

G. G. WATTERs, FRANK G. CLARK. 

